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Circuit:
Track: Okayama International Circuit - Full Course Time of Day: MorningWeather: To be updated in comments

Stuff:

- Season 10 will be the first season where the tyres will be the required change in the pit-stops, rather than the fuel.
- Are you aware that Okayama is in Japan?
- Japan is a country that is in the Football World Cup. This will be the first time running a season (PM/FR 2.0) that will have part of it occur during a world up.
- The above point is a point so useless, even I don't know why it's included.
- Whilst typing this out, I'm drinking some 25p off brand Cola, just to see what it's like, and I've decided that it was a mistake.
- Rene's championship win is the 2nd largest gap to 2nd we've seen in the 14 seasons run so far, and is the largest in the feature/sprint race era.
- The largest championship win was season 3 of Formula Renault, where Jouni Silvasti beat Phil Reid by 133 points. Jouni did not finish lower than 2nd that season.
- The closest championship is still season 4 of Formula Renault, where Jeroen Kweekel finished 1 point ahead of Jouni Silvasti.

iRacing Leagues Main Overseer

I've posted this race thread early (for the newcomers, expect them on Tuesday usually) so that I can post the tiers for people so they can see which tier they'll be in. I've updated the exact parameters on what it takes to be a part of a certain tier to hopefully get the best competition in each of the tiers. Again, tier 1 isn't actually a tier that has it's own separate championship, so it's just as a formality.

AOR iRacing FR2.0 Season 5 Champion

F1 Senna Equivalent

That was really good! P13 and P10 for my debut isn´t that bad at all as I was expecting a lot worse after yesterday´s practice. Especially the sprint race was a cracker when I had a little bit more confidence in the car and could actually fight for my position. What a shame though as I almost lost it out of the final corner on the penultimate lap sitting in P7. Managed to save it but I dropped 3 spots. igeon:

Nevertheless I enjoyed it 100%, cheers for the entertainment (much cleaner than official races btw ?) and looking forward to the next races!

iRacing Leagues Main Overseer

Overall, a very strong race night in terms of results. Very happy with where I finished both races, but I was incredibly disheartened, but also incredibly impressed, at the pace of the SimRC guys. It really did feel like I won class B, the pace up front was insane, especially from @Osterkamp. We haven't seen that pace since the likes of Jouni, Jeroen and Justin. Unreal stuff.

Qualifying:

Pretty poor, but very close to those just ahead. Happy enough to be top 10 in the end really, with how slow I felt in terms of raw pace. The practice session felt pretty great in terms of consistency, but yeah, just no real overall pace.

Race 1: Pretty standard affair really. Picked up positions from others mistakes, and ended up 4th. Kept it really consistent, no mistakes and in the end people dropping off meant i finished 4th. There were periods of time when faster cars were trying their luck to get passed, but then either pit stop strategies (which seemed to work relatively nicely?), or fights between them, I was able to stay where I did. Really, it should have been 5th and @Kez should have finished 4th which would have been a great result for AOR Orange, but unfortunately the car bit him at the final corner.

Race 2: Really fun race, great finish and a whole lot of overtaking. I had a couple of hairy moments, and a really unfortunate one with @Osterkamp which is a massive shame. Had a super hairy one with @Robert Plumley into the hairpin, sorry about that one as well. Applied the brakes just too hard and almost wrecked it into you, so great job avoiding that! Other than those though, the race was really fun. The rest of the overtakes were either really nice or relatively straight forward to move up the field. Some good racing out there with some of the new guys as well, so that was fun!

Overall, very happy with the results, very disappointed with the pace difference to the front guys but sometimes that's just how it goes. This track is quite unique I think, so hopefully in the future it will be much closer, or at least we can put some sort of pressure on Rene and not make it so easy.

Pro Karter

Race 1: Quite good race with 0 INC and I am happy with the result. Tried early pit stop, when I saw Luke Barton catch four of us. Did the pit stop to avoid battle and risk. It seems tactics works pretty well, as Luke, Charlie and Kerry crashed in front, when I was pitting.